Bound and gagged, this trap is an endless maze
Here in the dark, hoping for sun light that fails
The right moment, the right time, lost in a haze
Stuck to my cross with rusted out nails

Floods of tears, sorrows and screams – Pain and emptiness or so it seems
Mind filled with hate, your lost in despair – Soul carving depressions evil…stare

Speak of truth, honor and pride, live in deceit, contempt and lies
Dream of glory, bow and awe, waking up to gut - wrenching hate
(The clock ticks, I sigh and it tocks
My mouth speaks through what my will just blocks)

…bleed bastard, bleed…
The clown in the mirror keeps on grinning at you
Bound to a will of power a cold silence follows you

(Wishing)
Wish I had known… Wish I had thought
(Wishing)
Wish I had laughed… Ripping the plot

…bleed bastard, bleed…
The clown in the mirror keeps is grin on you
Bound to a will of power a cold silence follows you

No future in the past
No hope whatever lasts
No grasping and no hold
No believing what’s been told
Fooled by choice…if you must
Wronged in placing down your trust
What it was and now it’s not
Got so good before it rot
Preyed on what you had
Tried their best to make you mad
Pat your back…gave you a bone
Turn around and you’re alone
Looking up from the pit
Raising slowly bit by bit
They couldn’t break the bond
Still there is a light beyond

Down for anything or nothing at all
Reason runs thin up to the curtain call
Gave up ‘cos I can in order to feel
So to live again it’s me I had to kill

No master or no boss
Somehow it all became a cross
No strength to carry on
My will had long been gone
When the we became a me
And the rules closed off the free
Then they lay down their plot
I took my guns and then I shot…

Then and now don’t know how
It’s just the art of faking it
Can it be? I’m not me
Simple as that, or maybe
What they say goes away
Why don’t they keep their mouth shut?
If they knew what is true,
Would they still have what it takes?

Down for anything or nothing at all
Reason runs thin up to the curtain call
Gave up ‘cos I can in order to feel
So to live again it’s me I had to…

Kill… Kill… Kill… Kill!

Down for anything or nothing at all
Reason runs thin up to the curtain call
Gave up ‘cos I can in order to feel
So to live again it’s me I had to kill

To survive
Shrug it off and be alive
Life before was endless torture

…set on breathing and survive
Shrug it off and be alive
Could I get my hardest closure?

Then and now don’t know how
It’s just the art of faking it
Can it be? I’m not me
Simple as that, or maybe
What they say has gone away
They could not keep their mouth shut!
They never knew…

The stronger you push, the harder it breaks!

6. Knee-Deep in the Dead (Covariance version) (4:37)

Hello let me introduce to you
I am the daemon who lives, who lives inside you!
Beneath your flesh I’m chewing your bone
Making you do things you’ll regret
When you’re all alone

You’ll be my arms; I’ll be your will
Axe blunt, eager to kill
Their life is a light, a light you shall steal
Their blood for your glory…
Ain’t this a good deal?!

The fight of fights, to control your mind!

Come, take this journey with me
Leave your soul and fly away
Release the wrath you carry within
Knee-deep…in the dead!